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00:10Well, well, for what do I owe the pleasure?
00:14You look well, enjoying your little holiday.
00:18Oh yes, there's a wonderful little stink hole, perfect at this time of year.
00:22Thanks for asking.
00:23You're welcome, I brought you a little present.
00:36I've been hoping for a diary.
00:39I need you to keep writing.
00:42No.
00:43Why not?
00:45It may have escaped your attention, but I'm a felon.
00:51Arrested on the orders of the same, Mr. Adams.
00:54You now want me to poke with a stick?
00:56No one will know the identity of the author.
01:00Why me?
01:02Can you find another pair, Ra?
01:04No one's quite so imaginatively filthy as you.
01:11Same deal.
01:15Same deal.
01:44Charles Adams, who's 30 years old when he dies, and he dies of alcoholism.
01:56And Abigail feels guilty about that, because even then they understood that alcoholism runs in families, and it was coming
02:02from her family.
02:13There is still time.
02:15I have my duties here.
02:18New York is a seven-day ride at best.
02:21Ten more likely.
02:22Sally, I won't miss the funeral anyway.
02:27You are the president.
02:29They will wait for you.
02:32Have we not already discussed this?
02:35Our son will be buried alone.
02:38Sally will be there.
02:39And probably that sodomite friend of his.
02:46You can go.
02:49I won't stop you.
02:51You know I can't go on my own.
02:55Don't do this, John.
02:56I'm begging you.
03:05I shall never forgive you.
03:20Even though John has renounced his son, he mourns and remembers not the man that he chewed out a year
03:26and a half before, but the little boy.
03:29And he said he was my darling, my darling boy, the apple of my eye.
03:39The presidential elections back then were not like they are today.
03:43It took many months.
03:44It began at the end of October and really wrapped up in December, and no one really knew how it
03:49was going to shake out.
03:50At the time, whoever received the most votes in the Electoral College became president, and whoever received the second most
03:58votes becomes vice president.
04:03Thomas Jefferson's base is Virginia.
04:06So the great electoral plan of Jefferson's party is always an alliance of Virginia and New York.
04:15So you have to look for useful New Yorkers.
04:19And at first, Aaron Burr looks like a useful New Yorker.
04:24Aaron Burr is a very complicated figure, and a lot of people looked at Aaron Burr as somebody who was
04:31only out for his own.
04:41Mr. Jefferson.
04:42Mr. Burr.
04:48Thank you for your time.
04:50I promise to make it worthwhile.
04:51I hope so.
04:54President Adams' rotundity, if you wish, must be stopped, replaced, and gutted like a pig.
05:04Figuratively speaking.
05:06Of course.
05:07By any means necessary.
05:09Ganna cannot disagree.
05:10Excellent.
05:11I have a proposal for the election.
05:14We will split our parties vote.
05:16You will get 72 Electoral College votes.
05:19I will get 73.
05:20So I will beat you by a single vote.
05:23A better pill to swallow.
05:25But the narrowness of your defeat will mark you out as the coming man.
05:30Your successor.
05:31I will be president.
05:34You will be my vice president.
05:36Why would I want to do that?
05:38Surely I'm too young to be such a non-entity.
05:41It's true.
05:42It's not a destination for a man of your abilities.
05:45Think of it as a stepping stone.
05:49Adams was vice president for the old sage, Washington.
05:52Exactly.
05:52And I was vice president to Adams.
05:56I'm not known as a patient man.
05:58But I can be.
06:00I don't doubt it.
06:08I like it.
06:11Do it.
06:14Aaron Burr was willing to work with people from both sides.
06:18The problem with that is then, as now in U.S. politics,
06:22those who are willing to work with both sides,
06:24end up with people on both sides hating them.
06:31Christmas of 1800, a gloomy, depressing time
06:35for the president and Mrs. Adams.
06:37I have a present for you.
06:39The death of their son, Charles, was devastating,
06:42as well as the election of 1800.
06:45The newspapers, full of nasty, partisan vitriol,
06:48the nastiest stuff imaginable.
06:51True adventures of young Emmeline.
06:54Shall I read it to you?
06:57I want daddy to read it to me.
07:02John Adams felt betrayed and scandalized
07:06that Jefferson ultimately was behind these attacks
07:09on his presidency.
07:10What now?
07:12More lies.
07:14Unspeakable filth about me.
07:16Show me.
07:17Absolutely not.
07:19Why?
07:20The accusations entirely false
07:24are of a sexual nature.
07:28Oh, don't be so daft, John.
07:30It's not true, Abigail.
07:32Not a word.
07:32I swear.
07:34Oh, my.
07:41I really don't see anything to laugh about.
07:44I'm sorry.
07:45I'm sorry.
07:46It's just...
07:47I'm sorry.
07:47Really?
07:48You asked General Pinckney
07:50to import four pretty English girls,
07:53two for his use
07:54and two for your own.
07:57Where have you stashed them, John?
07:59Am I to be turned out of our bedroom?
08:01Am I truly so unmanly?
08:06So boring that you find the idea impossible?
08:11Of course not, my love.
08:13You have always been a lion.
08:17Magnificent.
08:18Untamed.
08:20The truth is that General Pinckney
08:24cheated me out of my two girls.
08:30What will you do about this?
08:32No doubt Jefferson is behind it.
08:35Or one of his lackeys.
08:37He wants to kill off any chance I have.
08:41Bury me.
08:44Well, two can play that game.
08:49What are you thinking?
08:52Sad news, Abigail.
08:56There's going to be a funeral.
09:00Newspapers in those days
09:02made absolutely no pretense
09:05of being nonpartisan.
09:07They published absolutely outrageous,
09:10scandalous things about people.
09:29What the hell's going on?
09:41I'm dead!
09:43You know, Thomas,
09:44we may need to study the Constitution.
09:47See what it says about a ghost
09:48running for president.
09:50There was a Federalist newspaper
09:52that printed a fake obituary
09:55of Jefferson,
09:56so your vote would be wasted
09:58if you vote for him.
09:59It was very easy
10:00to spread false information
10:02and very difficult to correct it.
10:05So at that time
10:06in the United States,
10:07only land-holding white men
10:11could vote.
10:11That means the entire
10:13female population
10:14of the United States
10:15could not vote.
10:16All African Americans,
10:18all of the indigenous people
10:20who lived in the United States
10:21at that time,
10:22they could not vote.
10:23People are following the returns,
10:26checking their lists.
10:27Well, how is Pennsylvania going?
10:29Where is South Carolina going to go?
10:31So this created
10:32an element of suspense.
10:34But it's also clear
10:36by Christmastime
10:38that John Adams
10:39is not to be re-elected.
10:46John?
10:49Why?
10:51We must discuss the levy.
10:54There's nothing to discuss.
10:59I'd rather roll naked
11:01in glass
11:02than throw a party
11:03right now.
11:05And what would we be celebrating?
11:09My rejection
11:11by the voters?
11:14Jefferson's
11:15triumph?
11:17The timing is terrible,
11:19but it is expected of us.
11:23Maybe it's a good thing.
11:24A chance to heal the nation
11:27and show everybody
11:29that we are so much more
11:31than the petty politics
11:32that have divided us.
11:34I will not dress up,
11:36smile,
11:37shake my enemy's hands
11:39whilst they drink my wine.
11:42Well, you are the president,
11:43and whether you like it or not,
11:45it's your duty.
11:47Well, they can shove it.
11:50Ride up my assumptions,
11:53which proved
11:54entirely accurate.
11:58The levy is a European form.
12:01It's like a reception.
12:02A more formal,
12:04staid cocktail party,
12:05if you will,
12:06with love,
12:06curtsying and presenting,
12:07pomp and circumstances
12:08and courtiers
12:09and palace intrigue
12:11and patronage
12:11and all that stuff.
12:12But you had to be very careful.
12:14Couldn't be too European.
12:16It couldn't be too suspect.
12:18I feel a fool.
12:20It will be over soon.
12:21Just promise me
12:22you will keep your temper.
12:25All right.
12:26All right.
12:28For you.
12:31Hell is empty.
12:33All the devils are here.
12:39Thomas Jefferson reviled
12:41the luxury
12:42and the decadence
12:43in Europe,
12:44and he wanted America
12:45to be the antithesis
12:47of all that he saw
12:49was wrong in Europe.
12:53Shall we dine?
12:55I'm waiting on my friend,
12:58Mr. Jefferson.
13:00He's here.
13:03I don't see, my friend.
13:10I see a man
13:12who would be king
13:13who claims to be
13:15no more nor less
13:17than an ordinary citizen.
13:18Well, if so,
13:22why the throne?
13:32That man is dead
13:35to me.
13:37The relationship
13:38between John Adams
13:39and Thomas Jefferson
13:40has been falling apart
13:41pretty steadily
13:42over the past few years
13:43before we get to
13:44this sort of fateful moment
13:45in 1801
13:46when the election results
13:47show that John Adams
13:49is not going to be re-elected.
13:50And so the drama
13:52of the election
13:53of 1800
13:53shifts actually
13:55right around this time.
13:56Where are you,
13:57you furry little bastard?
14:00John,
14:01please stop.
14:02It's almost midnight.
14:04He's mocking me.
14:07Every single night.
14:11Scratching
14:11and scuttling.
14:13It's just a mouse.
14:15Let it be
14:16and come to bed.
14:18I've got a surprise
14:20for you.
14:42Oh, come on, John.
14:43You know it's not
14:43your birthday.
14:44And anyway,
14:46I've got a far better
14:47surprise for you.
14:49By February 11th,
14:511801,
14:52the results
14:52of the election
14:53of 1800 are in
14:54and the result
14:55is very disconcerting.
14:57That's a dirty trick
14:59to play
15:00in a poor old man.
15:03It arrived
15:04this evening.
15:05That comfortable?
15:07You're going
15:08to enjoy this.
15:13The headline reads
15:15Election Result Shock.
15:20What are you waiting
15:21for, woman?
15:23Do you want me
15:24to read this
15:24to you or not?
15:29The Electoral College
15:31count in the
15:32presidential election
15:32is finally complete.
15:34Blah, blah, blah.
15:35Formalities.
15:36Blah, blah.
15:36Thanks to the counters.
15:37Ah, here we are.
15:39The President of the Senate
15:41then declared
15:42that Thomas Jefferson
15:43and Aaron Burr
15:44had a majority
15:45of all the votes
15:46and also
15:47the same number
15:49of votes.
15:51A tie?
15:52Between Jefferson
15:54and Burr.
15:57Hilarious.
15:59So it says here
16:0072 votes each.
16:03Let them share.
16:04Let them both
16:06sip from the poison cup.
16:09You do see the danger.
16:11Burr might be
16:12President.
16:14You must do
16:15something.
16:18Must I?
16:21Read it to me again.
16:22Why?
16:25Humor me.
16:28Thomas Jefferson
16:29and Aaron Burr
16:31had a majority
16:31of the votes
16:32and also
16:33the same
16:34number of votes.
16:41I'll sleep well
16:43tonight.
16:44So why is there
16:45a tie vote
16:46in 1800?
16:47Someone
16:48should have
16:49thrown away
16:49a vote.
16:50Nobody withholds
16:51their vote
16:52from Burr
16:53kind of thinking
16:53that the other guy
16:54was going to do it.
16:55The House of Representatives
16:56comes to a stalemate.
16:58There are a lot
16:59of Federalists
17:00in the House
17:01who would prefer
17:02to see Burr
17:03in the Presidency
17:04rather than Jefferson.
17:11May I have a word?
17:14Sounds ominous.
17:17In private.
17:27What news?
17:28What news?
17:29This.
17:31Which is?
17:33Mr. Burr
17:34has no principal
17:35public or private
17:36and is in fact
17:37one of the most
17:38unprincipled men
17:39in the United States.
17:41Gosh.
17:42You bastard.
17:43You set me up.
17:45And then there are
17:46the letters
17:46sent to over
17:47a hundred members
17:48of Congress
17:48urging them
17:49to vote for you
17:50because I
17:50am not to be trusted.
17:53See?
17:54Unfortunate.
17:55For me?
17:57And what do they
17:57have in common?
17:58The letters?
17:59The articles?
18:00Well,
18:01the man who wrote them?
18:03If you're suggesting
18:04that was me,
18:05you're wrong.
18:06So your hand
18:07wasn't on the pen?
18:09But I knew
18:09you put him up to it.
18:11Put whom up to it?
18:12You were trying
18:13my tr-
18:17You were trying
18:18my patience.
18:21Let's pretend
18:22you are innocent
18:23or just plain stupid.
18:25These attacks on me
18:27were written
18:27by Mr. Alexander Hamilton.
18:29War hero.
18:31Washington's
18:32right-hand man.
18:34Federalist vermin.
18:35Corrupt wretch.
18:37And you
18:38allied with him
18:39to sell me out?
18:42Hamilton and Jefferson
18:44had been at
18:44each other's throats
18:45since their time
18:46in Washington's
18:47cabinet together.
18:49But Alexander Hamilton
18:50thinks that
18:51Burr is dangerous.
18:53And so he sways
18:55his fellow Federalists
18:56instead to
18:57cast their votes
18:59for Jefferson,
18:59which swings
19:00the election
19:01to Jefferson.
19:04Oh.
19:11They say
19:13I want to be king,
19:14but actually
19:15all I want
19:16is a privy
19:17that doesn't
19:17freeze and winter.
19:19Is that too much
19:19to ask?
19:20You need not
19:21worry about that
19:22much longer.
19:23So,
19:24it is decided
19:27that we'll be
19:28Thomas.
19:28Yes.
19:29That is good.
19:31They rallied
19:32to his side.
19:33It was Mr. Hamilton
19:34who persuaded them.
19:35Hamilton?
19:37Why?
19:37It seems
19:39the only man
19:40he loathes
19:40more than Jefferson
19:41is Mr. Burr.
19:43Everyone hates Burr.
19:45They're welcome
19:46to each other.
19:48Hmm.
19:50Hmm.
19:55Hmm.
19:55Hmm.
20:00Adams is considered
20:02the first failed president.
20:03He's the first president
20:04not to be re-elected.
20:06The classic line
20:07on John Adams
20:08was Benjamin Franklin.
20:10He said,
20:11always an honest man,
20:13often a wise one,
20:14but in some things
20:16absolutely out
20:17of his senses.
20:18I'll kill him!
20:20John Adams
20:21was a great patriot.
20:22He was a great intellectual.
20:24He had a great sense
20:26of humor sometimes,
20:27especially with his wife,
20:29Abigail.
20:30But he could also
20:31turn on people
20:32that he felt
20:33had betrayed him.
20:39I can't believe
20:40we're leaving
20:41just as the building work
20:42has finally finished.
20:45Will you miss it?
20:47The house?
20:50No.
20:52I meant the presidency.
20:56I can't wait
20:57to spend the rest
20:58of my life with you.
21:12away from Washington.
21:15Away from the mist
21:16of vipers
21:17crawling all over it.
21:20The Adamses
21:21hightail it out of town.
21:23They don't go
21:23to Jefferson's
21:25inauguration.
21:27Careful what you wish
21:29for, Thomas.
21:47Hey, James Callender.
21:49You're free to go.
21:50When Jefferson
21:52is elected,
21:53everybody's freed
21:54who is under
21:55the Sedition Act.
22:00So,
22:01where will you go?
22:03Near Washington's nice.
22:06There's a man there
22:07that owes me a favor.
22:09I aim to collect.
22:10this is theļæ½ļæ½ė quick
22:10accident.
22:11It's expected.
22:12Yeah.
22:16Here he is.
22:17We are coming.
22:17Here he is.
22:17Here he is.
22:17And then we will
22:17of the invested
22:17and into
22:17is signed.
22:17Here he is.
22:17You
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